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The Lumen Orbit white paper (September 2024) argues that data centres in orbit can use solar power around the clock, unhindered by night, weather and the atmosphere. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-09 · publication Wording attested 2024-12-24. The cover prints September 2024 (v1.01). The earliest copy located is an Internet Archive capture of 24 December 2024, which the cross-family check found byte-identical to the copy retrieved for the pack and again at admission; this admission could not reach the Archive. Role Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Earliest located among the texts found by the pack’s searches of 2026-10-28 (company, agency, scientific-society and arXiv texts on orbital compute, 2019–2026) and the cross-family check’s bounded search of 2026-10-29/30 for earlier texts, including pre-2024 literature on space solar power; not a claim that no earlier text exists. The check found 1978 solar-power literature that describes continuous solar supply in space without placing computing there, and a 2022 ASCEND announcement that proposes solar-powered orbital data centres without the comparison; neither meets the criterion as worded.
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Why we should train AI in space (White Paper v1.01) ↗ Lumen Orbit, Inc. (now Starcloud), via lumenorbit.github.io · 2024-09
Archived copy, captured 2024-12-24: Why we should train AI in space (White Paper v1.01) ↗
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Source excerpt “Data centers in space can utilize high-intensity 24/7 solar power unhindered by day/night cycles, weather, and atmospheric losses (attenuation).” Location in source PDF p. 2, "Reduced Operating Expenses"
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Source details and check notes Authors Ezra Feilden; Adi Oltean; Philip Johnston Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 90e1bde5b01437d7778e044f8ed95df1c49a63559fc1e35177c94d6443e384f7). PDF v1.01 as served at lumenorbit.github.io/wp.pdf on 2026-10-28; cover line "White Paper v1.01, September 2024". Starcloud's current link (starcloud.com/wp) serves v1.03 (starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf), which adds a note that Lumen Orbit was renamed Starcloud in 2025; v1.01 is quoted here. The served file cannot authenticate when the v1.01 bytes were first published. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 90e1bde5b01437d7778e044f8ed95df1c49a63559fc1e35177c94d6443e384f7, the same bytes). The cross-family check (2026-10-30) opened the Internet Archive capture linked here and found it byte-identical to this retrieval; a capture shows only what the archive held on its date. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2024-12-24: Why we should train AI in space (White Paper v1.01) ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2024-12-24. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-28.Attribution Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean, Philip Johnston, “Why we should train AI in space (White Paper v1.01)”, 2024-09. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 79) re-read the record’s sources and found full support. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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